It doesn’t matter what level of success you’ve achieved, failure will come walking to your door anytime you start to hold back. If you don’t put your heart and soul into something, failure will follow. To experience a new level of life, try this exercise to help you learn not to hold back:

1. What in the past have you wanted to achieve, made a couple steps toward it and then, pulled back? This is the area or thing that you’re not putting your heart and spirit into all the way. This is the area that you could succeed in if you’d allow yourself to stop holding back.

2. What would happen if you did not hold back? What if you went all the way for this goal or desire? Write a brief statement (3-4 paragraphs) about what would happen if you didn’t hold back.

3. Make a list of three things that you in the way of you accomplishing this desire.

4. Write three action steps toward your desire that you could accomplish right now.

5. Make a commitment to do at least do these three things. No more and no less-just these three things.

Observe what happens to the obstacles that were in your way. Sometimes they will diminish or change. Sometimes they will completely eliminate themselves. These obstacles are replaced with other seemingly impossible and impassable things.

Once you experience the “changing of your obstacles” in this exercise, you will come to realize two things:

1. Obstacles, problems, and challenges may always be in the way of your desires.
2. If you continue to not hold back and give it your all, obstacles will diminish, disappear, or change on the way to accomplishing your desires.

All of us who are upgrading our lives to the next level will tell you that we faced obstacles, challenges, and insurmountable odds. This is the same for all successful people. But, we just keep going. Eventually, our success few bigger and bigger.

One of my favorite sayings that I like to share with my audiences is, “The level of success for any person is directly proportional to that individual’s level of courage.” Always remember that your courage does not relate to a lack of fear, but to doing things in spite of fear. You want to give your all and not hold back.

As the first pilot to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean, Amelia Earhart, proudly stated, “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”

Do not hold back. Not in your life or with your dreams. Do not hold back at all and see what will happen. You will amaze yourself at the level of success and the new power you will rapidly achieve.

Sincerley Yours,
Dr. Michael J. Duckett

Are you feeling discouraged because you have not achieved the level of success you desire? Dr. Michael J. Duckett has dedicated his career to helping people overcome their emotional blocks and make tremendous strides with whatever may be holding someone back. For more information: goal setting